iCollege Support for Instructors

iCollege Term Changes, January 2017
Beginning January 2017, a few terms used to refer to elements of the iCollege interface will be changing due to vendor updates. All functionality will remain the same, but new terms will be used for the items below.

In-Depth Online Support

Customizing Your Course Look and Feel

Instructors can customize the look and feel of their courses to better streamline the interface as well as provide a personal experience for students. Click here for instructions or contact the CETL at 404-413-4700 and cetl@gsu.edu.

There is a 1-3 business day lag time between when you appear as the instructor of record in Go Solar and when your courses will appear in iCollege.

To find your courses click on the magnifying glass at the top of your course list. This will list all of your courses. Across the top are dropdown menus that allow you to filter the courses by semester and department .

On the right hand side of the menu go to Edit Course and click on Import/Export/Copy Components.

Find the Search for Offering button in the middle of the page and click on it.

Choose the course you want to take the information from.

Click Add Selected.

Click on Copy All Components or click on Select Components. Copy All Components makes an exact copy of your course, while Select Components allows you to make choices about what top copy. Make sure to select Course Files when copying Content.

There will be a status bar on the right hand side that will tell you when it’s done.

For more information about copying content from one course to another, please reference our Copying Contenthelp file.

The last step is to create the columns in the gradebook where you will enter student scores. These are called Grade Items. The most commonly used grade item is the numeric grade item. You may also need one or more Grade Categories. Grade categories are used to group similar grade items. They help organize the gradebook and allow you to drop the lowest or highest grades from a category.

Grade book grades are automatically released to students when they have been entered and saved (this is not the same as entering them into a Dropbox or Discussion grade area). The exception to this is the Final Grade, which must be released by having iCollege calculate the final grade and then Publishing it.

To release the final grade, do one of the following:

Release grades for selected students: On the Enter Grades page, click Grade All from the Final Calculated Grade or Final Adjusted Grade dropdown menu. Select the Release Adjusted Final Grade check box for the user whose grades you want to release, and click Save.

Release grades for all students: On the Enter Grades page, click Grade All from the Final Calculated Grade or Final Adjusted Grade dropdown menu. Select Release All from the Final Grades dropdown menu.

If your course became cross-listed (the addition of an honor student will do this) the new cross-listed course will be blank. To recover the content please contact the IIT Service Desk, 404-413-4357 or help@gsu.edu, and ask that your content be restored.

Go into your course and, on the right hand side of the menu, find the Edit Course button. In Edit course find the Sections area, and click on it. That will list the sections in that cross-listed course.

There are many reasons the media may not be working. The most common reason is that the computer you are using is blocking/stopping the media from running or it does not have the appropriate software to run the media. Try using a different browser and/or computer. If you are still experiencing difficulties please contact the IIT Service Desk, 404-413-4357 or help@gsu.edu.

If you are still experiencing difficulties please contact the IIT Service Desk, 404-413-4357 or help@gsu.edu.

More Support for Faculty

CETL Instructional Support staff can assist with any iCollege-related questions, including:

Customizing the look, feel, and functionality of the iCollege environment to fit your teaching style

Encouraging meaningful online discussion and collaboration

Uploading and organizing content

Setting up and troubleshooting the Gradebook

Creating quizzes and using Respondus

Using assignment submission Dropbox and TurnItIn plagiarism detection

Integrating multimedia

Extending functionality with integrated technologies

For help using iCollege to support your teaching, email cetl@gsu.edu. In your email, please include possible dates and times that work for you to meet, as well as some details regarding what you’d like to discuss. We look forward to hearing from you!

Our Mission

The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) advances a university community where the best practices of engaged teaching and learning are supported through a range of programs for all instructors, from first-time graduate assistants to longtime faculty.
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